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pantheon
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pantheon as in:  pantheon of great writers

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    There is an almost infinite pantheon with a deity for each spring and river, mountain and forest, but there is a higher court of more powerful gods ruled by Hephestia, goddess of fire and lightning.  (source)
    pantheon = a culture’s set of gods
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    "Shut up and follow me," said Mike and, like a lesser member of the pantheon following an older and wiser deity, I had shut up and followed.  (source)
    pantheon = important members
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    By choice Marko became individual in his thinking, and so unknowingly committed the gravest sin in the Communist pantheon.  (source)
    pantheon = list of those that are most important
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    It is the Monument to the People's Heroes, Mao first in the pantheon.  (source)
    pantheon = list of the most important
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    ... a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.  (source)
    pantheons = a culture’s set of gods
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    Hale's place in the pantheon of American heroes, as the martyr spy of the Revolution, was not to come until years later.  (source)
    pantheon = list of the most important
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    On one of those Sundays he visited the new cemetery adjacent to the church, where the residents of La Manga were building their sumptuous pantheons, and his heart skipped a beat when he discovered the most sumptuous of all in the shade of the great ceiba trees.†  (source)
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    If Frito-Lay, for example, has a new kind of tortilla chip, they need to know where their chip prototype fits into the tortilla chip pantheon: How much of a departure is it from their other Doritos varieties?  (source)
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    They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†  (source)
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    They fed off human memory and belief—dozens of musty pantheons still muscling up against one another like they did in the old days.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    We visited the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Sistine Chapel.  (source)
    Pantheon = ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the Roman gods
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    They walk to the Pantheon, or to a flower market, or along the Seine.  (source)
    Pantheon = 18th-century neoclassical building in Paris
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    The architecture was coarse and simple, more reminiscent of Rome's rugged Castel Sant'Angelo than the refined Pantheon.  (source)
    Pantheon = ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the Roman gods
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    I saw the Pantheon, and Napoleon's tomb.  (source)
    Pantheon = 18th-century neoclassical building in Paris
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    Even in the 1600s, the Pantheon, with its tremendous, holed dome, was one of the best known sites in Rome.  (source)
    Pantheon = ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the Roman gods
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    Once, when she was eight or nine, her father took her to the Pantheon in Paris to describe Foucault's pendulum.  (source)
    Pantheon = 18th-century neoclassical building in Paris
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